Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-11
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

SPIRIT OF THE NEWS. !
The public debt was reduced 81, 1885,
Is782Iast month.
There is newspaper in Dakota foil
every 1, 200 population. Z
The Servian Government has caused
the arrest Of refugees from Bulgaria.
Bookmaking win hereafter be pro-.
hibited on the Paris race-courses.
Cincinnati packed 3s1, 4o1 head al
pork for the winter season just closed
The Bulgarian, Government has conl
tracted q loan of 20, 000, 900 francs in
England.
The receipts of the Irish Nations
League during the last fortnight
amounts to f1, 800.
Lord Randolph Churchill's speech isl
set down BY the London press as a bid
for outside popularity and as meaning
mischief for the Salisbury Cabinet.
Sir John Macdonald is pleasantly
referred to by the Toronto Globe as
''the most notorious economizer of
truth our politics has ever produced. .
|. Senator Riddlebrger had floral
Tyre laid upon his desk the other day,
and the sender did not intend to per-
petrate a practical joke either.
IT is intended to open the Royal Hol-
loway College for Women early next
year, and the building is rapidly as
Stunning a home-like aspect.
They are at least logical in Texas.
There a gambler cannot be indicted for
"vagrancy'' if he can prove that he
makes fair living at his profession.
Philadelphia Times: One of these
days some Senator will accidently do
something or other and before he knows
it viii become known as statesman.
Pouring tea is one of the accomplish
ments much admired at Washington.
Elsewhere it is more important that
should be well brewed than gracefully
poured.
I The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
winds up an obituary notice with the
sentence; 1.-The deceased was shrewd
politician and a heightened Christian
gentleman. Unique.
The German post-ofice authorities
are making extensive experiments with
view to connect the whole of Ger
many by the telephone.
Dan Rice, the veteran circus clown
and temperance lecturer, has fallen in
to bad habits in Cincinnati, and spends
most of his time in maudlin condi-
ton from drink.
Mrs. Annie Boone died recently at
Eminence, Ky, aged SO years. She
was the niece by marriage of Daniel
Boone and grandmother of Mrs. S. N.
B. Piatt, the poetess.
The National Zeitung Of Berlin says
third donation of $4,000 has been
&c eived from the American Socialists
to assist in the election of the Socialist
candidates to the Reichstag.
Riots have occurred in Sardinia, aris-
ing out of the threatened failure of TIVE
working mems savings banks. The
Italian Government has sent experts to
examine the books of the institutions
A movement is on foot to obtain for
Jean Ingelow. the poet and novelist.
one of the annuities In the gift of the
English crown awarded for services to
literature. Miss Ingelow was born in
1880.
Prince Alexander. late of Bulgaria.
contemplates a visit to the United
States next autumn. His mental as
well as his physical condition is report
ed badly shattered BY the events of the
last six months.
Charles Heyne, q poor umbrella
member in Pittsburg, now dying of
consumption, served in three great
wars-The American Civil War, the
Austro- Prussian, and the Franco-Ger-
man conflicts.
Sam Jones declined to preach to the
newspaper-men of Boston because he
came to call sinners and not the right
seous to repentance. The st. Paul
Press Club is negotiating with Sam for
an address. Chicago Tribune.
The French Colonization Society has
decided to send twenty five families to
the New Hebrides. This will be the
first contingent sent out by the society.
and is supposed to be the thin end of
the wedge of an extensive colonization
movement. @ u
The market-Women of Berlin have
an ancient right which they jealousy
assert namely; that Of presenting
Newly ears Eve to the Crown Prince
six sausages, . tart, and twenty-five
hard boiled eggs, They did not fail in
their gifts this year.
California made in 1886 $4,000, 900
gallons of wine, against 1900, 600 for
1885. The San Francisco Call says
&C, 00O, 900 pounds of grapes have been
shipped East as table fruit, 60.O00, 600
pounds made into raisins, O,000, 900
pounds made into brandy, and over 49,